TATA intimates in Schenectady bid an affectionate
farewell to Anil Ron in the Jewish Community Auditorium on Saturday, October 20th
2001, organized along with the customary monthly get-together. Nagoor Padmaja
and Shiv Kumar eloquently compered the Saturday’s evening meet during which
Jawahar (Thangajawahar Kalidoss), Anil’s succeeding BRM for the prestigious
GE-PS & GE-CRD accounts in Schenectady NY and Greenville SC regions, introduced
his family to the members. Thanks to Basav and Srinath for fixing up the
wonderful JCC auditorium located in the immediate neighborhood of Hillcrest
Village Apartments. People convened in the hall from 6:45pm onwards to kickoff
the function by 7pm.
After the inaugural prayer by Suchitra, Padmaja
welcomed Jawahar on behalf of the TATA’ites and then invited the Birthday boys and girls and wedding
anniversary couples of September and
October to the stage for the cake cutting event. Basavaraj Benki, webmaster for
TATA-SCH community web site (http://www.geocities.com/tatasch/), organized the ‘War of Balloons’ game for them which was won by Suchitra and
Lakshmishree. Sound-Anand
n party amused the
crowd by mimes n dance show, followed by
solo
songs session. It was time now for the fun
filled Surprise Game organized by
Ravi. He randomly read out the names, and corresponding actions from a set of
slips, filled by their best friends at the time of entering the hall. Laughter
and thunderous applause were all that greeted the nervous members attempting to
perform the requested action.
Shivkumar, who consistently
peppered some good Hindi Shaayiries
during compering, invited the members to speak about Anil. Then Akhila-Anil Ron
couple shared the experience during their stay of over 2 years in Schenectady
and thanked the members for all the love and affection. They also wished the
community folks best of luck in all their future endeavors. Later, the two BRMs
Anil and Jawahar played the Irrelevant
Conversation contest, which was won by Jawahar.
Anil took the stage to distribute the prizes for
the games and TATA-SCH tournament. Jawahar, Suchitra and Lakshmishree received
their prizes for games. While Venkata Rami Reddy received the Best
Volleyball Player
award, the Thunder Blasters, Volleyball Tournament
finalists, received the blue winter Jerkins and Super Six,
the runners up, received the white winter T-shirts. The TATA-SCH community
expressed its affection by presenting a Gift
Check and token mementos to Anil, Akhila, Ankita and Akansh handed over by Jawahar.
Finally Padmaja and Shivkumar rendered the vote of
thanks as the group dispersed for the grand and succulent
organized-potluck-dinner, followed by the Group Photo session. Thanks to the
disciplined members, who minutes later, cleaned the premises and disposed off
the trash. Thanks to the JCC member of staff Richards for the help that he
rendered during the party.
By 10pm, it was all over and
silent except for the smiles of satisfaction, that danced on the faces of
members heading home, speaking of yet another splendid evening that has just
bygone.
Cheers to the participants
and the organizing committee for making this event a grand success. Please
follow the link http://photos.yahoo.com/nagabhra
for about 40 photos, taken during this
function.
Birthday boys and girls:
Gurjeet, Nagendran, Rupesh, Madhavi,
Venson, Venkateshan, Namitha, Suchitra, Priya, Lakshmishree, Ravi, Manga,
Tapan, Rajesh, baby Saranya and her dad Srinath
Wedding
anniversary couple: Linsy-Rajesh, Sukanya-Sumeru, Chitra-Sasikumar,
Nithya-Kannan, Shailaja-Rajesh
People who Spoke about Anil: Jawahar, Atlur,
Manga, Raghu, Uma, Chandru, Gurjeet, Basav and Kalyani. (Some of them spoke
emotionally)
Thunder-blasters: Raghu (Captain), Kannan, Konkat, Basav,
Chandru, Sita and Uma
Super-six: Karthik
(Captain), Thamarai, Kalai, Ravi, Arun, Naren and Shivkumar
Sound n party:
Soundararajan, Anand, Choks, Kalai Rupesh, Karthik
Solo Songs: Ashwini, Sukanya,
Sudip, Konkat, Raghavendra
Organizing committee: TCS Ladies, Srinath, Basavaraj, Gurjeet, Padmaja,
Sitaram, Kalai, Ravi, Karthik, Venkat rami reddy, Rajesh, Selvam, Raghu, Kannan
and others.
